Just a normal night at the police station for rookie Christine Paley. This is a log of about eight different types of arrests which can happen in a normal month. Lieutenant Mike Brosloe leads her through a most unusual first shift. If all shifts were like this, even a veteran could only last a short time.
Tag: 1990s
A dream-like version of the Sabbath in the Middle Ages: one night at full moon, the women leave home to meet with the devil in the woods. Several orgiastic ceremonies later, they all return home at cockcrow. All except for one, the youngest, who is under an evil spell.
A seminary student, Giacomo Vigetti, is convicted by the Papal State of seducing a young girl. He is forced to flee and takes refuge with an excommunicated priest. Unfortunately, the priest was excommunicated for experimenting with the black arts. And soon Giacomo wishes they’d never met.
Three Japanese pilgrims arrive in India. Miss Naruse is looking for Otsu, a Catholic priest, her lover ten years before; after time in France and Israel, he has come to Benares where he carries the bodies of the poor to the crematorium. Her life is empty and, although Otsu was her lover only as a joke, she is now drawn to his spiritual nature. Mr. Isobe searches for a village child who may be the reincarnation of his dead wife. Mr. Yagusi comes to pray for the man who saved his life in World War II, a man haunted for 50 years by the means he used to save his comrade. Pantheism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Christianity meet on the shores of the Ganges in these characters.
In the wintry Rockies, the crash of a medical-emergency aircraft strands the pilot and four travelers, including a critically ill child.
Petr Vaclav’s documentary Pani Le Murie depicts the last survivor of an aristocratic family who refused to bow to Communism.
A new music teacher comes to the institution for mentally disabled children. He’s got a month to teach them to play some instruments. But it takes much more than time to understand and accept these children. And vice versa.